Various berry bushes (raspberries, currants, gooseberries) are grown in their summer cottages by most gardeners. To diversify the range of plants, you can plant blueberries in the garden. Its berries are tasty and healthy, and it is quite easy to care for this crop.
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The benefits and decorativeness of blueberries
Among the main reasons why you need to grow this crop in your garden is that it has delicious berries and has an increased yield, which is important for many owners of summer cottages.
Tall blueberries taste like blueberries, for which they are sometimes called "blueberry tree". However, its berries are much tastier and sweeter, which is why it is rapidly gaining popularity all over the world. In addition, the size of the juicy berries is 2 times that of its relatives growing in the wild. The high productivity of the bushes allows you to remove up to 10 kg of fruits from each adult specimen, which can be consumed both fresh and used for various preparations - jam, jam, confiture.
An important factor is that blueberries are not only tasty, but also healthy. They contain a large amount of vitamins and various biologically active substances. It has been proven that regular consumption of these fruits helps prevent diseases of the cardiovascular, nervous and digestive systems, improve visual acuity, strengthen the walls of blood vessels and prevent the development atherosclerotic plaques.
The juice of this plant can be used to treat colds, it helps to normalize metabolism and hematopoiesis processes. Pectins and antioxidants, which are rich in blueberries, help to remove toxins from the body, actively fight the consequences of exposure to radiation and toxic industries, and even prevent the occurrence oncology.
In addition to its benefits, this shrub is highly decorative and can decorate any personal plot. In spring, numerous pale pink bell-shaped flowers appear on the stems. In summer, the branches are decorated with large blue berries. In the fall, before the fall of leaves, the foliage acquires crimson shades and becomes especially decorative.
In the wild, bushes can reach up to 3 m in height. For cultivation in summer cottages and gardens, breeders have bred more than 100 different varieties of blueberries. Among them there are tall and dwarf shrubs, compact and with a spreading crown, with different yields and ripening periods of berries.
Berries in different varieties have different sizes and tastes, so they can be selected according to your needs. The bushes are able to bear fruit well even in poor harvest seasons for other berry crops. By choosing the right varieties, you can provide yourself with fresh berries from mid-July to the end of September.
At the summer cottage, you can use bushes of tall blueberries to create hedges, since they tolerate a haircut well if necessary. Adult plants, planted not in a group, but singly (tapeworms), look no less decorative. In North America, where this plant comes from, shrubs of various varieties are often used to create heather gardens.
Easy to grow
Tall blueberries are rightfully considered one of the most unpretentious fruit bushes. It is resistant to most diseases inherent in berry plants, and almost never suffers from pests. These bushes can easily withstand both summer heat and frosts down to -30 ° C.
It is important to choose the right place for planting blueberries. It should be well lit and protected from drafts.
This shrub feels best in acidic, moist, but light soil, since in the wild it grows mainly in marshy areas. If the soil at the summer cottage has a neutral or alkaline pH, then it is recommended to dig a large planting hole and fill its acidic peat or a special substrate, which includes coniferous litter and bark, high-moor peat and coarse-grained sand. When the bush is planted, the trunk circle within a radius of 1 m should be mulched with dry needles.
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